Definitions

1. Bob Wills is the undisputed King of Western Swing (as well as the King of Texas).
2. Bob Wills was the driving force behind Western Swing, a form of country & western that was broader in scope than the parent genre.
3. Bob Wills was a maverick and his spirit infused American popular music of the 20th century with a renegade, virtuosic flair.
4. Bob Wills was one of the first 'country' musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band.
5. Bob Wills was born outside of Kosse, Texas, in 1905.

Bob Wills Stuff

1. I had a band in Visalia in 1952 and had the band for 47 years, “The California Playboys”. I did all the Bob Wills stuff.

Western Swing Music

1. Texas developed a distinctive twin-fiddling tradition that was later popularized by Bob Wills as Western swing music.

Night

1. But every night of the week, and every day of the week, several times during the day, we had Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys.

Days

1. Bob Wills recalled the early days of Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

Result

1. Tommy Perkins, 69, former drummer for Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys; died June 8th, 2003 in Lawton, OK as the result of an auto accident.

Version

1. By the fall of 1973, his version of Bob Wills ' "Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)" had cracked the country Top 40. (Web site)

Name

1. Speedy soon adopted another idol by the name of Noel Boggs, who played in Hank Penny 's band, as well as the Bob Wills and Cooley bands.

Years

1. Had Joe Holley, Bob Wills left handed fiddle player for 7 years in his band. (Web site)

Musician

1. Tiny Moore was a musician who played the five string electric mandolin with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the 1940's and 1950's. (Web site)

Sound

1. The problem is that the remastered sound is AWFUL. I have the Proper sets on Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills, and the sound is good for budget sets.

Thing

1. The one thing they all seemed to say back then was that the greatest of them all, when it came to showmanship, was the king himself, Bob Wills.

Wheel

1. Asleep at the Wheel, the Austin, Texas -based western swing band has been paying homage to Bob Wills for over 35 years.
2. Asleep at the Wheel, the swing band that emulates the spirit of Bob Wills, intends to schedule appearances with Williams as a guest.

Performing

1. He's also known for keeping western swing alive by performing the music of Bob Wills and Eddie Arnold. (Web site)
2. At 6 she was performing on an Oklahoma City radio station, and by 10 she had sung with bandleader Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. (Web site)

Veterans

1. As with jazz, many of country's earliest stars, such as Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills, were veterans of blackface performance. (Web site)

Pop Songs

1. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were a dance band with a country string section that played pop songs as if they were jazz numbers. (Web site)

Song

1. Many artists have made of this song a classic -- from Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys to Louis Prima, who recorded it in 1957.
2. From the 1970s until his 2002 death, Waylon Jennings performed a song called "Bob Wills is Still the King".
3. Jason who plays Bob Wills in a stage show in Austin is also a fine writer and his song, the cleverly titled "Am I Right or Amarillo" is a distinct highlight. (Web site)

Johnny Cash

1. Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Hank Williams Sr., and Johnny Cash are the only other performers honored in all three. (Web site)

Album

1. It's Ray Price, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, and Donnie this album is the real thing.

Fats Domino

1. As a result, Vaughan and his older brother, Jimmie Vaughan, were routinely exposed to concerts by artists such as Jimmy Reed, Bob Wills, and Fats Domino.

Buddy Holly

1. This is a honor reserved for Lone Star legends such as Bob Wills, and Buddy Holly. (Web site)

Country Music

1. In early 1960 Jackson began receiving overtures from Las Vegas, where country music had been introduced by Hank Thompson and Bob Wills.
2. Lloyd is a great source of information on the early days of country music and has toured and played with many of the greats, including Bob Wills. (Web site)

Playing

1. You hire Bob Wills, you get Bob Wills, playing his music his way. (Web site)

Haggard

1. Haggard would do other tribute albums to Bob Wills over the next 40 years.

Spade Cooley

1. In addition, he took her to see such acts as Tex Williams, Spade Cooley, and Bob Wills, which left a lasting impression on her young mind. (Web site)

Swing Music

1. Western Swing meanwhile, whose chief exponents were Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, was a poppier form, heavily influenced by the swing music of the day. (Web site)

Texas Playboys

1. In 1967, Tommy Duncan, front man for Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, died from a heart attack that occurred after a show in San Diego, California. (Web site)
2. In 1943, she became the first female singer hired by Bob Wills for his band the Texas Playboys.
3. Bob Wills and his Playboys (in 1934 re-named the Texas Playboys, when they moved to KVOO Tulsa).

First

1. Well, I first met him when he was playing with Bob Wills.
2. First of all, Billy, it's "Milk Cow Blues," by Kokomo Arnold, and it's one of many old-time blues numbers that Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys performed. (Web site)

Western Swing

1. Haggard's next LP was A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills), which helped spark a revival of western swing.
2. Django Reinhardt also had an influence on other styles and musical genres, including Western Swing, notably in the work of Bob Wills.
3. And hinting at things to come, the collection wraps things up with a taste of Bob Wills ' Western swing and Ernest Tubb 's early honky tonk.

Country

1. Then there was Country & Western--especially what was called "Texas Swing," of which Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys was the king.
2. Texan honky tonk country musicians like Alvin Crow and Bob Wills helped invent Western swing and other genres of country.

Texas

1. Fred "Poppa" Calhoun, piano player for Milton Brown, vividly remembered how people in Texas and Oklahoma danced when Bob Wills played.
2. Bob Wills, born east of Kosse, Texas in an area known as The Moss Springs Community, is known as the "King of Western Swing". (Web site)
3. The genre of western swing as played by Bob Wills is itself a testament to the influence of black swing on the fertile musicians of Texas.

Lefty Frizzell

1. This sound grew out of hardcore honky tonk with elements of Western swing, and was influenced by one time West Coast residents Bob Wills and Lefty Frizzell.
2. One-time West Coast residents Bob Wills and Lefty Frizzell influenced the leading proponents of this sound. (Web site)
3. Influenced by one-time West Coast residents Bob Wills and Lefty Frizzell, by 1966 it was known as the Bakersfield sound. (Web site)

Bob

1. In 1999, the band and Dreamworks released Ride with Bob, as their second tribute album to Bob Wills.

Wills

1. Wills recruited the Light Crust Doughboys and they later changed their name to Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.

Band

1. The band interprets a style made famous by the likes of Spade Cooley, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, and Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours. (Web site)
2. Don Walser performed as an opener for Johnny Cash and recorded the now legendary �Tribute To Bob Wills� album together with the band Asleep At The Wheel.
3. Bob Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. (Web site)

Tulsa

1. Leon McAuliffe, age 71, Western Swing band leader and steel guitarist for Bob Wills, died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 8-20-1988.
2. Tulsa is where Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys began to refine their sound.
3. Language warning The vast majority of concerts I go to is at "The Home of Bob Wills" Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa.

Songs

1. Her songs were recorded by artists from Willie Nelson to Elvis presley, and Ray Charles to Bob Wills.
2. Listen to the incredible streaks of blue notes that run through the songs of Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills, to name only two of the most obvious examples.
3. That same year, she contributed two songs to a tribute album to Bob Wills, called A Tribute to Bob Wills 100th Anniversary. (Web site)

Eddy Arnold

1. Born in Mart, Texas, Walker wrote a great many hit songs for a number of country music stars such as Bob Wills, Eddy Arnold, and Carl Smith. (Web site)
2. He learned how to play guitar during his early teen years, when he gravitated to the Western swing sounds of Hank Thompson, Bob Wills, and Eddy Arnold. (Web site)

Music

1. This music has more of a "swing" style popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
2. Texas developed a distinctive twin-fiddling tradition that was later popularized by Bob Wills as " Western swing " music.
3. Bob Wills continued throughout the years adding to his band the music of the times and of the south where he played.

Merle Haggard

1. George likewise picked up on artists as diverse as Bob Wills, Merle Haggard and Frank Sinatra.
2. Emerging artists such as Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard all cited Bob Wills as the primary influence in their country careers. (Web site)

Roy Acuff

1. His library overspills with books on Texas, cattle, and the West; his musical tastes run to Bob Wills, Roy Acuff, Willie Nelson, and Bill Monroe. (Web site)

Hank Williams

1. Maybe Jimmie Rodgers and Ray Charles and Hank Williams and Bob Wills had to sort of melt together into something.
2. As a teenager, he fell in love with country music, particularly Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, and Hank Williams.
3. I never thought for one minute about what Hank Williams or Jimmie Rodgers or Bob Wills — the people I looked up to — thought about politics.

Ernest Tubb

1. Most of these songs were hits way back then for country music legends like Bob Wills, Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Webb Pierce. (Web site)
2. George Strait, Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, and even Bob Wills tipped their hats from the stage at the far end of this old dance hall. (Web site)
3. Other variants include western swing (see Bob Wills) and honky-tonk (see Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams). (Web site)

Jimmie Rodgers

1. As well as Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Roy Acuff, and Clarence Ashley all appeared in blackface during the course of their careers. (Web site)
2. The Delmore Brothers are not nearly as well-known as such early country giants as the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, and Hank Williams. (Web site)
3. Of course we had to include Hank and the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills and Bill Monroe, etc.

Bob Wills

1. Its greatest practitioners owe their singing style to Jimmie Rodgers and much of the music to the steel guitar and drums of Bob Wills and Western Swing. (Web site)
2. Taylor, Bob - Drummer, born 1928 in Calif., became a key figure in the Western-swing scene with Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, and Merle Haggard. (Web site)
3. While stationed in Hawaii, George started singing with a country band, using the songs of Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, George Jones, and Hank Williams. (Web site)

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3. Music > Composers > Songwriters > Hank Williams
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